“Suffering teaches joy.”
“The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.”
“Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.”
“Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.”
“Colors are light's suffering and joy”
“Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, the world once seemed to me.”